. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. Reprinted from Dccauhcr, 1^)33, Amkruax Orciiii) Sociktv ^ y \ 4> Native Orchids Our Eastern Orchids and Their Cultivation 4. The Spurred Orchids (Orchis and Habenaria)* Edgar T. Wherry 4V 41 »^ I 4- The orchids of this group are ([uite as difficult to transplant as the most intractahle of the Cypripediums, already discussed in preceding- ar- ticles.' Dealers sell them, to be sure, in large numbers, but in most cases the result is simply wild tlow- er destruction; usually they fail to come up at all the follo
. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. Reprinted from Dccauhcr, 1^)33, Amkruax Orciiii) Sociktv ^ y \ 4> Native Orchids Our Eastern Orchids and Their Cultivation 4. The Spurred Orchids (Orchis and Habenaria)* Edgar T. Wherry 4V 41 »^ I 4- The orchids of this group are ([uite as difficult to transplant as the most intractahle of the Cypripediums, already discussed in preceding- ar- ticles.' Dealers sell them, to be sure, in large numbers, but in most cases the result is simply wild tlow- er destruction; usually they fail to come up at all the following- year, or if they do manage to pull through, they die inunediately after blooming^. The root-systems of these plants consist of radiating- clusters of elong^ated tuberoids, one of which is a rootstock, bearing: at some point along^ its upper surface the bud which is to g^row into the next year's ])lant. The sim])le tul)er- oids will wither away at the close of each season in any case, so in- jury to them does no particular harm. Injury to the bud-bearing- one, however, may ])ermit the in- vasion of parasites, and result in the death of that individual. The aver- ag^e commercial collector yanks the leafy stalks out of the toug^h mass of peaty material through which the orchid's root-system spreads, as likelv as not breaking off the bud in the process. He then hacks off the ends of both kinds of tuberoids indiscriminately, so it is small won- der that the mortality among^ pur- chased stock is hig^h. If these orchids are to be trans- ])lanted with any deg^ree of success, thev should be collected by the ex- ])erimenter personally. The approxi- mate root-spread of the particular species should be ascertained in ad- vance, and the dig^g^ingf implement Tdtitribulion from the Botanical Laboratory and Morris Arboretum of the l:niversity ot //'//(/ I'lo'Zi'cr Prcscr7'atio)i SiH-irty O nil is sp ccta h His Pierce Mill WckxIs, D. C. inserted far enoutrh out from the cr
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